That is entirely true and was just as obvious to me - after you had drawn blood. I hadn’t meant it to happen, and didn’t know before hand it would excite me so.

[ His eyes went wide as he spoke next, realizing something as the shape of it was voiced; ]

I wish I could give that connection to you, even if it unsettles me in many ways. You’re not meant to be shut off as you are, I would imagine. And at least you already, at least partly, understand me.